Like it or not New York Times, you have BLOOD on your hands. You helped sell Cheney and Bush’s war. You had a role in the deaths of thousands of American soldiers. You are key player in the Military-Industiral Complex that Eisenhower warned us about.

The times they are a changin. How about your paper?

Kudos to all who conceived, created, and distributed. Especially Joe the Publisher….YESSSSS, men!

I don’t understand what statement they are trying to make. We set the standard for coverage of the Iraq War™.

I can’t tell you enough how amazing you everyone at the NYT-SE are. How in the hell did you pull it off? This one is going down in history. I’ve never been presented such a clear vision of peace and social justice ever before. You’ve help me dream bigger than I’ve ever dreamt before. Have you thought about making this a daily??

YES MEN RULE!!!

Great Job!

This is beautiful!

How can those of us not lucky enough to have been in New York yesterday get our hands on a copy?

This is awesome!
It was even big in the news in Germany today. I love the idea. You really should reprint and sell this edition to raise funds for new activities
BIG Kudos from Bremen

Thank you folks. This is smart,creative and effective (just see the media coverage!). I’m looking forward to future actions from you guys!
Best wishes from good old Europe!

bravo, une fois de plus Andy et toute la bande sont de vrais héros ! félicitations !

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nice job!

would like to download the first video (B-roll) in broadcast quality but the download aborts and the file can´t be opended.
could you fix that, please?

thanks in advance!

This is the weapon of mass illumination we all need, keep it up Andy and Mike and all involved, now we need one in London…target these City bankers that have made this mess we’re all finding ourselves in. Any takers?

ı am sending this comment in turkey.. really good work you have done..ı did’nt read your newpaper but ı want peace to forrr worllddd…( and bush is sucker please anyone tell him his face new york is very far to my country )

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это круто! наконец то вы, американцы, смогли показать, что не готовы идти на поводу за политиками, а готовы диктовать свою волю и высказывать свои желания

Great idea, and great execution. Looking forward to seeing it being covered by the mainstream media, or at least the Daily Show and the Colbert Report :).

-A

The Yes Men are on the cutting edge of social and political commentary in this country. Let’s go worldwide!
-Alan C. Baird

This is amazing, I really enjoyed reading the PDF. Solidarische Grüße aus Deutschland!

The idea to sell more copies of this to raise funds sounds like a good one to me

Like the best of Colbert and Stewart, this once again trumps the real/fake, fake/real news…kudos!!!!

to -> “w”
Yeah, that might be so. There is only one problem,your paper is probably owned by some one, who is friends with some one!! And they determine what get’s published or not!

Excelente!

ULTRA AWESOME WORK!! What a delicious dream…… Guess it maybe, perhaps could come true??

Thanks for making my day - to all those who made this happen! LOVE this ‘new’ edition of a favorite American newspaper~!!

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Where can I donate?

Good joke! =)))))

The Yes Men are amazing…
If we start thinking about these ideas, how we can do them, instead of constantly being on the defensive with these ignorant fools trying to run the world, maybe things will change…

Please,Please,make it True!

” Our victims know us by their wounds” and their chains: that makes their testimony irrefutable as all they have to show is what we have
done to them and in that way find out what we have done to ourselves”.

Reality is better,but we have to work together. The last 8 years was
a cruel experience for the world,especially to the american people.
Podremos soñar muchas veces y todos los días,pero la realidad es más fuerte que toda la ficción junta.Para hacer realidad nuestros sueños
tenemos que trabajar juntos por un mundo mejor, por una verdadera democracia sin pobreza y desigualdad.
Ahora que está por terminar esta pesadilla del 8 años de tortura de
un gobierno como el de Bush, debemos trabajar para hacer realidad muchos proyectos democráticos en el campo educativo, laboral, económico, político, cultural, artístico y en todo lo que corresponde
al mejoramiento de la sociedad global.

Why waste money on this?
Telling a lie ten times become true.
OCD.

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Bravissimi! Once against the YES MEN tell it like it is, in a way that folks can’t ignore!

Amazing! Now it needs to be a reality!

I love this is great idea, it’s excellent!
Put this Bush-men on a front of international court, with all Republicans in the Bush administration who is rampant during those eight years in this government. Send Bush to Guantanamo, with all the republican Bush administration!
Make is True ..

Wow - Talk about using your power (in this case,your sparkling wits and collective guts) for good! This stunt manages to be funny in a truly beautiful and whimsical way. I’m so used to cynicism - it grinds us all down. Something like this theoretical newspaper lifts us all. Thank you so much.

The ’60’s live on! Thanks!

The Yes Men are so funny!
Война в Ираке наконец-то кончилась! Сбылась мечта идиота.
А мне нравися Обама, ведь н “красивый, молоой и загореый”!

A really nice action
Thank you very much
go on

Muy gracioso.

As a purveyor of fake news myself, I am deeply impressed, even humbled, by your achievement. This is stunningly good. Thank you for paving the way to a better tomorrow, simply by putting it into print. That’s a fine starting place.

when I saw the celebration in NYC on the war’s end, I just choaked up.
what a great idea. Act as if we have what we want. The dancing in the street in costume and celebration is a perfect way to demonstrate our joy and longing for the killing to stop.

Bravo. The NYTimes spoofed! April Fools’ arrived early. Love it!

Very funny.
If it were to become true the world economy would comr crashing down before you could say Boo.
But hey, it would make every Libersl. Tree-Hugger, Communist, Socialist, Anarchist and neer-do-well very happy…..for a day or so.

Freedom aint free and there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Signed,

A recovered Liberal (I grew up)

Very funny, indeed.

Jesus said be child like. Sorry to hear you grew up.

Autobots transform, and roll out!

It’s a shift in mindset that is needed, and I can imagine how many Americans felt their hearts soar when they read that front cover.

To Etek OP: The more people that truly desire an end to Iraq and Afghanistan, and keep that thought in their minds, the harder it will be for the administration to maintain. History proves that nicely.

It’s hard to see your point of view on and end to Iraq bringing the world economy crashing down. Isn’t that already happening?

Make It So!

Very good, giving a very nice dream to anyone (even me)… don’t be afraid dreaming cause when you stop dreaming, you’ll stop running

create situations! hijack media! bend reality!
destroy the society of the spectacle!

Manipulating the real news is being done everyday….only this time the real manipulation of the readers is second to none…LOL

A Blessing on ya!

Great spoof guys.

It’s doesn’t really represent my dream for the future of the US, but it’s a beautiful vision none-the-less.

Great delivery too. You would have brightened my day if one of your papers landed in my lap on the train to work.

Cheers.

This is brilliant - big news in Austria too! And it made my day!

Great job, guys! Looking forward to further actions!

It’s OK!

YES WE CAN… what else?

Thank you fo liftng my/our spirts.

I hope you popped off to the future in a time machine to get this paper.

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

“Strategic planning is worthless — unless there is first a strategic vision.”

Absolutely great. From the idea to the finished product. Thumps up from a fellow journalist

You made the gift of joy and hope to the whole world. Thanks.

Thank you for such a wonderful act of “disobedience”!

I am jealous that nobody in Germany has thought about such a great “provocative act” yet. It will not only wake up responsible managers, politians, officials but hopefully responsible citizens all over the world to start not only to think and talk about what they urgently need and want but to act upon it as well. No longer leave others to set standards for your life - do it yourself!

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Thanks to the Yes Men and to all those who made that possible ! I wish there was more events like this all over the world. I now know what my little contribution was used for and I thank you for your actions ! Greetings from Belgium. I can’t wait for your next ideas. Go on !

As I passed these out, the best response I got was, “So is this like a…hope tactic?” At first I laughed, but then I thought about it for a second and said, “yes, that’s exactly what it is.”
It is extremely difficult in this world of skepticism and cynicism to construct an action that is effective without being alienating to the average person. Yet the creators of this action manage to do it every time. So glad I got to be part of it.

I just want to say that I (in all my masculinity) was brought to tears to see that people actually do still care. There is still MUCH good in the world and I - very much a grown man - was just overtaken with tears because the people of this world really do jwant peace. That is all…

I just want to say that I (in all my masculinity) was brought to tears to see that people actually do still care. There is still MUCH good in the world and I - very much a grown man - was just overtaken with tears because the people of this world really do want peace. That is all…

what a fantastic effort! thanks. so much effort went into this superlative edition..you guys are the best!

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I heard the news in Germany and was pleasantly surprised!
Good Job “THE YES MEN”!!
I want to hear more of your activities -> far to Germany and Europe!
Certainly better over the world!

Macht weiter so Leute, stoßt denen gegen den Kopf, manche verlieren den wenn sie an der Spitze stehen!

Bringt Licht ins Dunkel! -lieber früh als spät!
Bring light into the darkness! -better early then late!

Best wishes from *Berlin*

Great job. You can see in those reactions that at least for a few people, a new era has begun with this newspaper - after many years they’ve looked into the future again, looked to a better world and said “that’s possible” instead of cowering in fear of made-up or played-up threats.

Congratulations!

Political Art. Loving it!

This just overwhelmed me with the oppressive sorrow of knowing it is a mere reprieve in the shape of a dream… We will all still re-awaken to our endless nightmare in this carnivorous fishbowl. Is your intent here to rub our noses in it? God tells Bush to kill in some absurd alter-reality, papers sell lies to their paying public and it’s just another business day. What is the going rate to sell out your fellow man?

Excellent idea, even better: to publish at least once a month an edition reversing the lies-covered news of the New York Times with reversed information presenting instead a positive, brilliant future, what we envision and dream of, as you did with the July 4th, 2009 edition, which is contrary to the Illuminati mind-controlled terror-driven news depicted in the New York Times which serves no other than the power elite. That whole building is managed by Satanists.

“Traffic” said best when the said “You can all join in”…Here’s a little song you can all join in with

It’s very simple and I hope it’s new

Make your own words up if you want to

Any old words that you think will do, yeah

Yellow, blue, what’ll I do? Maybe I’ll just sit here thinking

Black, white, stop the fight, does one of these colours ever bother you?

Here’s a little dance you can all join in with

It’s very simple and I hope it’s new

Make your own steps up if you want to

Any old steps that you think will do

Left, right, don’t get uptight, keep in line and you’ll be alright

Clap hands, move around, make sure no one puts you down

Here’s a little world you can all join in with

It’s very simple and I hope it’s new

Make your own life up if you want to

Any old life that you think will do

Love, yeah, it’s nothing new, there’s someone much worse off than you are

Help me set them free, just be what you want to be

Great job!

in those videos you see what people really wants
only by looking at their eyes!

The war must end! and the Bush administration should be punish for all the lies they said to get into this war!

mass-destruction weapons… bulshit!

now many people wrote that a lie like this NYT-SE one is hurtful,well I really think it’s helpful indeed.

The massdestruction nuclear weapons were much dangerous lies that became a WAR!

think about it

P E A C E !

OMG I so love your idea!!! This is such a great way to spread hope!!
And yes, this is the news we hope to read some day
YES MEN ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, fantastic work, pleeease make it periodic… the formula is absolutely brilliant and fun (yes, fun is needed). Make it somehow indenpendently supported if you need to. Or better yet, if you made a shadow 4th power, why not also a shadow presitent and administration and shadow judicial power as well? Some shadow people may support in concurrence with mainstream installed power.

If nothing else, the Obama victory has unleashed energy, imagination, chuztpah, and future possibilities. Well done! Bravo! Encore!

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genial idea! una muestra de periodismo dinamico y de un trabajo de equipo creador. J’ai bien aimé votre iniciative.

where can we get printed copies or can we reprint the copies here in CA?

you make me so very happy. Best news I’ve had all day.
make sure Obama gets one, he’ll work on it.
Yes, how do we get a copy if we live in CA? (prop 8 didn’t pass after all…)

GREAT job! Keep at it, greetz and a lot of respect from Germany. And: War is over if you want it - by the way.

Well done “Special” New York Times guys!
Very nicely planned and excellently pulled-off! The level of hope you carry for the future is indeed enviable. It’s pleasantly contagious. Although you missed out on ending the war that the Bush government gave us (read: gifted us), here in Afghan-Pakistan region, but I am positive that sooner or later reason will prevail over your government’s hegemonic designs, hope will triumph over the ultimate brutality of your war-making machine and I dare imagine that on another bright day like this, U.S. will stop ‘liberating’ us and it will learn not to export the ‘democracy-of-terrorism’ to countries it just wants to be in. I wish I could only emphasize it anymore: People here don’t hate you because you are Americans, but only when you force us to be Americanish!
We wish you peace and a speedy recovery from the present economic illness that you have fallen into. May the 4th of July next, bring the best of your dreams to life. Ameen.
– Victims of a bogus War.

Politics, art, economy, smart humor - rarely are all these accomplished so smoothly, powerfully, accessibly, and effectively. Big congrats.

Great job, guys! This feeling that you’ve read the “Media activist cookbook”(http://www.box.net/shared/fvx553l92v) by Oleg Kireev.

Great! But your ARTS section is missing… and this is nothing if not art, doing what art should do every day by showing us the possibility of the future!

Powerful guerilla media. Shenanigans like these are a breath of fresh air. Let me know when you’re hiring!

Good job Stevo and crew. Full family support for this

Great job all around.

Only missed ONE small detail, and that was fixing the timestamp on the comments. It would have been fantastic had you added an offset in the timestap to forward everything from the base-date of July 4th, 2009.

A quick hack, if you have a dedicated server, is to just set the date ahead on your server.

Call me when you’re hiring!

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Hope springs eternal! I look forward to July 4th (leaving the year unnamed). Congratulations nonetheless!!

It’s a great life if you don’t weaken!! Thanks for a wonderful job!

digg it! Bush Indicted for High Treason. one digg! make it ten thousand! go ahead! digg it! listed under ODD STUFF! (definitely not comedy)

Digg it! Why? Because you can! Then other’s will see this too. Make it last by digging it. Digg every story!

Now that the war is over, where are all these troops going to find suitable employment? Now if Polish immigrants can pick potatoes in Great Britain, why can’t we do the same in America? I’m all for a cap on wages, but the living wage law has yet to be fully implemented and the immigration question is still big on people’s minds. Let’s just issue a border pass to anyone who wants to work or live in this country and guarantee wages so that anybody who wants to work can afford to do so with dignity and pride. It’s time to do away with Homeland Security and just register newcomers. The security of our nation is in the trust of each other.

“WAR IS OVER, WHEN YOU WANT IT”..TO BE
Imagine living for today! You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

even in the Czech republic we could read an article about fake NY times in daily newspaper… thanks the Yes Men!!

welch großartige Idee die Menschen wachzurütteln und zum Träumen zu bringen. Glückwunsch aus Deutschland. Nele

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ATTENTION!!

An article in this issue was cited for a college paper. It is now being questioned as to the veracity of both her paper and the use of internet for citing material.

Regardless this was a luscious and elegant use of private funds. Thank you.